About the Journal

Focus and scope | Peer review | Publication frequency| Open access| Journal history

Focus and scope

'Ricerche slavistiche' is the oldest active Italian journal of Slavistics. It was established in 1952 by the founder of Slavic philology in Italy, Giovanni Maver, and has been for a long time characterised by the centrality given to the philological study of texts, which corresponds to the formation of this discipline and its articulation throughout the 20th century. It now proposes itself as a place for in-depth study and scientific debate in a different historical and cultural context, where the roots and traditions of Slavic languages and cultures in Europe can be studied in their reciprocal relations and intersections with non-Slavic cultural traditions - with the cultures of the Germanic area, the Baltic area, the Romance area and the Balkan area in its non-Slavic expressions - up to investigating their contemporary outcomes.

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Peer review process

Submissions are first evaluated by Journal’s Editorial Board. If the manuscript is considered suitable for publication, it is sent to at least two reviewers. The peer review process is double-blind, whereby both referees and authors are kept anonymous.

Referees are asked to evaluate the manuscript within four weeks. If the reviews are positive, but the manuscript requires to be revised and resubmitted, the author is expected to submit the revised version in four weeks.

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Pubblication frequency

The journal, owned by Sapienza University of Rome, is published annually. Each issue has: a monographic section coordinated by guest-editors and with a specific call for papers; at least one section of studies on various topics; a section of reviews.

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Open access policy

“Ricerche slavistiche. Nuova serie” is first published in traditional (paper) version. After 12 months embargo, the articles are published in open access on journal’s website.

The paper version can be purchased from the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies at Sapienza University of Rome.

For details regarding the purchase, please write to: 

angela.gazzillo@uniroma1.it or rossella.barbato@uniroma1.it

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Journal history

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'Ricerche slavistiche' is the oldest active Italian journal of Slavistics. It was established in 1952 by the founder of Slavic philology in Italy, Giovanni Maver, and has been for a long time characterised by the centrality given to the philological study of texts, which corresponds to the formation of this discipline and its articulation throughout the 20th century. It now proposes itself as a place for in-depth study and scientific debate in a different historical and cultural context, where the roots and traditions of Slavic languages and cultures in Europe can be studied in their reciprocal relations and intersections with non-Slavic cultural traditions - with the cultures of the Germanic area, the Baltic area, the Romance area and the Balkan area in its non-Slavic expressions - up to investigating their contemporary outcomes.

The journal, owned by the Sapienza University of Rome, is published annually. Each issue has: a monographic section coordinated by guest-editors and with a specific call for papers; at least one section of studies on various topics; a section of reviews.

"Slavic Searches. New Series" publishes contributions in all living Slavic languages and in the main vehicular languages of the European continent, although contributions in Italian and English are especially encouraged. For the monographic section, however, only submissions in Italian and English are accepted.